I cannot give you the life Genevieve’s parents could have given you.

My eyes filled.

But I can give you a house nobody gets to use as a threat.

I stopped reading.

PART 14 — GIanna’S LETTER

Gianna wrote:

A home should be somewhere you can return because you want to, not somewhere you remain because someone else controls the keys.

I covered my mouth.

Owen waited.

Then: